Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Qiantan Hong]

On this spirit, should we try to bundle in some more “IDE” like
features/packages rather than just file modes?
I could speak for SLIME or SLY, which is practically used by every
Common Lisp programmers (practically everyone of them use Emacs).
They’re both licensed under Public Domain.

> On Aug 27, 2021, at 11:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:38:42 +0200
>> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
>> Emacs Devel mailing list <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> 
>> Also even if you think a package is very useful, it might not be useful to
>> everyone. I would prefer to even refactor some of built-in packages into gnu
>> elpa instead of having them all in Emacs.
> 
> That's not the current vision of the project.  We want all the
> features that are important to have in Emacs OOTB to be bundled.  And
> support for popular programming languages was always a very important
> built-in feature of Emacs.
> 
> So yes, we want that to be in core, not in ELPA.
>